Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[NovaAman]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US, HAPPY BIIIIIRRRRRRTHDAY TO UUUUUUSSSS! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!

LEAST I AM STILL A YOUNGUN!

 

[chickflick]

Niiiiiiiiice. Yes, the tomatoes are doing exceptionally well this year. Everyone I've talked to says the same.

Haven't talked to me!! My garden looks horrible. Looks like every thing froze. Nothing is growing! I don't know what's going on. I give up. Went on a garden tour today and I swear her tomato plant was as big as me!! Huge and beautiful. She had beautiful gardens too! Oh well, know when to throw in the trowel.

 

[chickflick]

Hope you feel better soon, Stacy! My grand daughter just had her tonsils to hopefully stop her ear infections. She gets worse even when on meds. Poor thing is never without an ear infection.

Happy Birthday to all who have them! Hope you all had a great day.

 

[preciouskitty]

[COLOR=008000]HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US, HAPPY BIIIIIRRRRRRTHDAY TO UUUUUUSSSS! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US![/COLOR]

[COLOR=008000]LEAST I AM STILL A YOUNGUN![/COLOR]

X2!! ( or 5 or 6...lost track of how many of us are today, were yesterday & are within the next week! LOL!)

 

[NovaAman]

Well, I found where the coon got in and out. A triangle gap at the top between the original coop, and the coop I built last year with the wood I picked up from a house build. With the size of the hole, I am surpised it got through. I am even more surprised that nothing had gotten through over the winter at all. Must be she has kits.

I took the hoop roof down. I bought some wood, put up beams instead. As soon as I put those up, that closed up that triangle where it got in. I have the first layer of fencing up on the tree side. I figure that's how it got on top of the coop to begin with, from a tree branch. I also trimmed all those branches back about 3 feet away from the coop. I have one more side to get the fencing up and then the tarp will go back up. In the mean time, the birds will be locked in their coops until I let them out in the morning. Do they like that? No. Do I care? No. Did I get many eggs today? Nope.

As for Little Pretty. She's eating and drinking. I have her in a cat carrier at the moment. She's going to be coming in the house though tonight. I have to many flies in the garage, and I do not want any to get in her wound. I gave her back her eggs, and she puffed up at me, then tucked them under her. I figure, this will keep her still for the next few weeks while that back/wing heals up. She has full use of the wing, but under it in the back muscle is where it tore her open. The lungs were not punctured, no broken bones, though she did get a toe ripped off too. SO, sitting letting that foot heal is also a good things. She's got two weeks to go on those eggs. I hope she pulls through. Although, Loralie has decided to go broody, kicked Beulah off her nest and stole it. SO, I do have another bird to give the eggs to finish if need be.

Guess I will go and make food for people now.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

I can't believe how well the tomato plants are doing! I don't know what I'm going to do with all of them this year!

You can share them with me

I agree, canning them is a wonderful way to use the extras.

I feel like a big wuss. Normally I am fine with any pain. But something about this ear pain has me humbled, omg.

Feel better soon!

That is interesting. I am new to chickens (first year) but not to gardening.

Welcome!

Nova, sorry about your hen. I hope she gets better.

I hope every one has a safe and happy 4th!

 

[RaZ]

Today I took my dogs to BYFM for grooming. As always, she turned dirty, shaggy, matted, stinky dogs into works of 4-legged art.
The down side was finding that my GR was flea-bitten. Her belly is a red rash, now slathered with Bag Balm The other dogs only had one live flea each. Flea treatment is now underway.

So I can't help notice that since my chickens were removed by the court, the flea, fly, mosquito and tick population is now abundant.

 

[Wrightsx4]

Last week I thought there was nothing cuter than watching a baby chick hop onto mom's back to drink out of the big chickens' waterer. Today they were fluttering around the run and leaping to snap mosquitoes out of the air. Such cute little things.

 

[GrandRapidsGirl]

Do any of you have advice about using broody hens to hatch eggs? I have two broody Silkies and 12 fertile eggs (arriving Friday.) My hens are tucked in the same nesting box. Should I just tuck all of the eggs under them in the one box or try to move the broody hens to a new location with a bit more room than that single box and away from the other chickens?

Any experience and opinion is greatly appreciated. I am so new to this!

 

[gladahmae]

I'm not an experienced broody person, but I seperate my broody into a big dog kennel with its own food/water. Both times I've done it I pulled eggs out of the incubator and put them under the broody at around day 10.

This last time I didn't get my broody blocked off from the other hens in time and my polish shoved her way into the nest box and broke a Marans egg in day 20. The chick was fully formed and I was really ticked off at myself for not getting the partition up sooner.

I know others have a lot if experience and I'm sure they'll chime in with good advice.